New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-21
RESULT OF TASTY LEGiSLAIiVN'
DEFECTS IN SOME IMPORTANT BILLS.
COLLECTOR M'cUE's FUTURE-INTEREsTlNd PANAMA
CANAL GOSSIP.

soIIcIToR M'CUE's FUTURE-INTEREsTiNd PANAMA
CANAL GOSSIP.
ryRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRibuSE''
WAsuINGroN March 2O.-The csrelessness Win
which important legislation is sometimes ehac'eu
seems inc sedble almost II is not always tue result Vi
seyenthhom legislation either for in some OF tue most
conspcuo.is instances bills which afterward proven
detective had been pending before Congress LOT years
and had been discussed for months before ,ney
became law A bill introduced early In the Allan
Congress nv Senator Dolph passed IN the senate
after it had received what was thought 10 nave pee
thorough examination in committee. III was seht W
the Hous, was subjected to the scr amy OF the proper
con mit.ee and finally passed with amendments anu
returned to the Senate. conference eomln1'ee was
snnointed 1t, managers went over the biii aean,
and finally agreed upOn report. In the senate TUG
report OF the conferees was adopted lAat Iao. anu
the text Of the bill engrossed was tfenSnica ny
the Associated Press to New York lheie one y, '
editors discovered what he thought was giunaer on
the part OF the telegraph operator IN Wasnng'Gh,
which lett the meaning OF the hll QUITE oosI"u "a
asked Tor correction The bill was hunted up ana
onr 4 10 have been correctly sent, but IL WIS ai1o
found that it did not appropriate the iuoney a s,
intended to appropriate on, ei -" attention was
immed;aev drawn to the ceioci Just in time TO nave
the vote by which the conference report was aop'ou
reconsidercd and the bill recalled Tor CORRECTION.
The Ioterstate Commerce bill in some oil lis sec
tions "a everybody knows, so vaguely worueu mat
nobody can tell what thcy mean and. vet 'hs, easuie
bos reen in CONGRESS for years it has been
discover ed that tho Agricultural Experiment STATION
bill although purrortng to make an appfopri.lon
tailed 10 do 40 The Trade Dollar bill was 80 crude
that tbe President thought time that he would be
compelled 20 veto It, He had serious douots az 10 inc
possphity of it's execution hut allowed II 10 become
law without his signature rather than veto IL outright
Tba Anti PoIyrar1v act is SAID to contain some mex
picabe provisions. An item OF Pc ooo was eI, ou1
OF the Naval Appropriation OIL by the m,he % n ne
trict of Columbia Is full OF points so obscure III uue
meaning that the Commissioners have been ooneed
10 apply to the auditing ofheers OF Tue l,e"sarS
iufp
upOn the execution OF the law Nhat Is true Vi tpis
appropriation bill is of nearly every other passed
by this Congress. They are all full oil MISTAKES;
biundeis and in places so mudded as 10 uey all
In framing laws where faulty punctuation may in
volve the Government in losses amounting 10 thou,
sands of do lars better should be taken 10 aVod
mistakes 3 no does not remember the omission OF a
single comma in the Tariff Act OF 1872 which II was
oalculatei eDtilcd upon the Government loss oil
some $500 900. That was only u single instance VI
what careless and hsstv legislation will sometimes
result in SO slight error involving such serious
con .eoences has not been discovered yet this year
but il seems have been lost warning upon those
men who still persist in raroading important meas
ures through Congress in the closing hours OF SEES
zion.
An interesting piece gossip though it s nothing more
than gossip aud to rest upon no other
comes froI Berlin by way OF Frankfort and Sew-Iork
According 70 this writer "a great New, o OLA
wednesday telegram from its correspondent at
Frankfort 30 Ihe effect that DE Les'e2s ma naa IN
the lntero,eanc Canal, and that he pointed out MIA
bond OF peace would be between the TWO nations he4
Jointly owned and controlled such work De Lesseps
also said that OF the ftyaye miles OF the canal t%e
even were excavated ten feet aud eight the entire
aud that he had built dam across the
mouth of the WORK to prevent the sea water comins
in There was every probability, the communicate
said that the proposition woud be accepted Inc tTann
fort bankerIN anted to know in case me naIer was con-
inundated what effect it would have on American
securities The nature OF the answer Of the great New
York banking house" is not disclosed In diplomatic
circles here however. the story is not regarded as a
gether Improbable though in the absence OF more
worthy information it is regarded with some degree OF
suspicion.
Among NEWCOMERS in town yesterday was snith "
Weed OF Platsburg. His presence at the Whlte House
gave rise once rumOrs connecting his name VIII
the Treas Try portfolio 1t settled, however, ina
Fairchild is to be the coming man.